Active desktop in XP

[Falcon2004]

Hi

Everytime I restart my laptop or start it up after shutting it down I get the active desktop recovery thing coming up. I've never experienced this in XP before and I'm not sure of what to do. I don't particularly care about the active desktop, my background is jsut plain black with no icons anyway. Can anyone tell me how to fix/turn off the active desktop, preferably without re-installing windows.

Any help appreciated
Falcon

[Jiff Lemon]

Right click desktop, properties, desktop, customise desktop, web.
Make sure you've nothing ticked.

[Falcon2004]

Yeah i done that, still happens If i remeber correctly there used to be a Run -> "command" that uninstalled it for ME (Much like the one that gets rid of Windows Messenger in XP) I was wondering if thats still around in xp and if anyone knows what it is.

Falcon

[cm_uk]

does it shut down properly?

[Falcon2004]

It used to do everything properly except keep the active desktop, not a problem anmore, formatted the SOB yesterday and split the HHD into 2 10Gb sections and reinstalled XP, working fine now, and i got a space for my files

(I like things organised, my main PC is up to Drive J for XP with another 2 sections for linux...)

Falcon